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You have a great website. Traffic is steadily increasing. Your viewers are happy with your content. But are you making money off that traffic? If you’re like most of us, you are probably doing the normal things like using Adsense, the odd banner ad and hopefully promoting products within your articles as well. Maybe you […]

If you have been blogging for a period of time and have started building up your traffic, chances are you are already familiar with affiliate networks like Shareasale and CJ . For the most part, these big networks are likely to have the offers you want to show on your site. But what if you’re […]

Want to earn $1 every time you give away something that is free? It’s easy money. Read on….. Well its been a long long time since I posted here. My sewing site just took off this year and I’ve been devoting all my time to growing that and making it as successful as possible – […]

OMG – well I knew November would probably be a very good month for me, but even so – not only a new record but a huge target reached and passed. But with the good comes the bad, so let’s take a look at what happened and talk just a little about what comes next. […]

Are you getting your site and affiliate offers ready for the holiday season? The f0rth quarter of the year should be the most intensive for your marketing efforts and you should be looking for quality products to promote, and products that would sell well especially at this time of year. Think – gift ideas and […]

What is Gazelle and Why Would I Use Their Services? Gazelle is an online trade in service for used consumer electronics like iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, Samsung Galaxy devices, and many other smartphones and tablets. Gazelle pays you cash for your used gadgets when you’re ready to get new ones – cash you can use […]

Earnings from my sites hit their peak this month, setting an all time record. But sadly its not setting a trend, its the peak before the fall. It was a final fling before the full extent of the change in cookie at my major merchant comes into full effect. But before we talk about that, […]

Just time for a quick seasonal post. Halloween is coming and obviously costumes are a big seller at this time of year. If you are a member of ShareASale (and you should be!) then I have a new program for you to take a look at and join. BuyCostumes.com is a huge online costumes seller […]

Another month goes by and my MMM blogging mojo has yet to return. I’ve been concentrating hard on my main site and have also been working on another site, and this poor one has been neglected. But despite neglect on this site, others are doing well and earnings are in, if reported a little late […]

By popular demand, and because so many people out there want to move their site from Blogger to WordPress, I’ve created my very first e-course. I think you’re gonna love it! The course teaches you step by step and in real time using a real life example, how to do your own Blogger to WordPress […]

We looked recently at the affiliate program for Blurb through ShareASale and I know many of you signed up and hopefully have designed your free photo book to promote on your site, and will earn some affiliate sales commissions for the festive season. I know many of you have craft blogs, or at least crafting […]

I get a lot of emails and questions asking about the best affiliate schemes to sign up for, and how to make money from them. Today I am focusing on one of my favorites and show how you could pay for Christmas with sales from Blurb. So why do I recommend Blurb and what do […]

August was another good month for earnings even though it was the summer, and I had been expecting a bit of a slow down. I think my slow down will come this month, but lets look at the figures then talk some more… August Blog Earnings Google Adsense – $163.61 Sverve – $28.00 Lijit ads – […]

What is affiliate marketing? We looked at Escalate previously and I described them as an advertising network. You can certainly earn some money this way and many of you already have done. But today we will look at signing up with ShareASale which is different – I would describe them as an affiliate network. Escalate features banner adverts which […]

New FTC Disclosure Guidelines for Bloggers Did you know that in March 2013 the FTC issued new and updated Disclosure Regulations that apply to bloggers and website owners who display advertising and use affiliate links or product reviews on their sites? And the new rules appear much clearer, and more stringent, than we might have believed before. Until now most bloggers have been adding […]

If you are new to earning money from your blog and aren’t sure where to start or how it works, then for your first network I recommend starting out with something nice and easy to work with and one especially designed for bloggers. The first agency I’ve chosen is Escalate Network, and in the video […]

June was a tough month. After going back to work full time in April and not having the time to devote to my sites I was expecting this to finally come through in to my earnings in June as any tracking periods on my affiliate offers started to expire. Search Engine traffic was strong and […]

There is more to making an affiliate sale than simply signing up for the scheme and displaying a banner. You need to ‘Work It Girl !’ True, if you are promoting a great product and the banner is cute, different or eye-catching, you might get some sales with very little in the way of promotion – but to really […]